EPMD

flow

noun

Published on April 10, 2016, 5:50 a.m.

a smooth current of rap lyrics;

one's manner or style of rapping

Collocates on the low⁷, spit⁷, murder⁶, dough⁵, wack⁴, on point⁴, hoe⁴, retarded⁴, Optimo⁴, re-up³, rhyme³, ill³, loco³, rapper³, nuff³, good³, no homo², proper², rap², steady², swag², swagger², thuggish², rep², toast², wackness², yo², Calico², crazy², cavi², go hard², fin'², feel², floss², drop², long², mad², mad², H-town, hard, hate, heat, hella, hellafied, herb, Hova, hydro, ice, icy, ish, joint, lifted, low-low, mayne, mental, nickel bag, off the chain, pack, pack, papes, peace out, played-out, po-po, pop, powder, puff, punk, punk, rag, rap, rap, real, retarded, scrill, shorty, 64, sleep on, slow your roll, snow, son, telly, throw down, thugged-out, tight, trap, trill, turn it out, wack, yo, I'mma, Brick City, MAC-11, on fleek, fuck with, Y.O., T-Dot O, nickel, shot-caller, peep, rip, Eagle, sick, froze, bust, game, rap, -ass, 310, baby mama, backpack, beat, bitch, black, bolo, booyah, bout, bow, bread, bust a move, bust a cap, cake up, Chi-town, chill, chronic, correct, crunk, delf, digits, dolo, dolo, down, drop, ether, fatty, figures, flavor, 44, four pound, freestyle, G-funk, goat, get busy, green

Domains Music

Related concepts freestyle, hip-hop, MC, put it down, rap, rapper, rapping, rhyme, throw down, turn it out

Rhymes on the low⁵, Optimo³, loco³, No homo², blow², Calico², dough², dolo², mellow, mo', oppose, Optimoes, po-po's, shows, so, tempo, yo, go, bro, bolo, Y.O., T-Dot O, Freakshow, suppose, Dolo, hoes, hydro, know, hoe, 310, lo lo, low

1988-06-07 EPMD "Strictly Business" [Strictly Business]
With the slow tempo and the off-beat rhyme flow
1988-06-07 MC Lyte "Don't Cry Big Girls" [Lyte As A Rock]
Can't stop the flow, it's just too persistant
1988-08-02 Salt-n-Pepa "Solo Power (Syncopated Soul)" [A Salt With A Deadly Pepa]
Just wait for the drumroll, then you can feel the flow

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Origins of Cited Artists

Eric B. & Rakim

flow

intransitive verb

Published on April 10, 2016, 5:50 a.m.

to rap, rhyme with smooth, constant delivery

Collocates MC², wack², beat², word is bond², yo², 24-7², chips, correct, deuce deuce, Dom P, fiend, front, H-town, herb, heron, hollow-point, keep it real, Lex, no diggity, on the low, on the under, rep, represent, retarded, retarded, spit, tryna, X.O., yo, rep, flavor, peep, chicken, double R, hard, 5-0, -ass, 7:30, body, bolo, chinchilla

Domains Music

Synonyms rap, rhyme, spit

Rhymes know², blow, go in, goin, grow, on the low, throw, XO, Yo, five oh

1987-07-07 Eric B. & Rakim "Move The Crowd" [Paid In Full]
For those that know me, indeed, I like to flow
1987-07-07 Eric B. & Rakim "My Melody" [Paid In Full]
Keep you goin when I'm flowin, smooth enough, you know it
1987-10-25 Heavy D & The Boyz "Rock The Bass" [Living Large]
Flowin to the sound

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